Aug 5, 2025
Wigtown Book Festival launches its 2025 programme today (5 August) with its largest and most varied programme ever. Named Best Festival or Cultural Event 2024 in Scotland’s national events awards, The Thistles, the 10-day gathering takes place from Friday 26...
Aug 5, 2025
You can go one better than all the fans heading to see Oasis at Murrayfield. Comedy hypnotist Matt Hale is giving his audiences the chance to do more than listen and sing along from the crowd – they can actually climb up on stage and be Noel or Liam for the night. And...
Aug 5, 2025
As a young boy growing up in a backwater town in the Philippines, with goats in the back yard, the chances of Jeremy Rafal having a career as an international concert pianist were slim. The challenges were only made tougher when, at the age of 10, his beloved older...
Aug 3, 2025
Inspired by his star-studded and scandalous masked ball at New York’s Plaza Hotel in 1966, Garden Party, Truman Capote’s Black and White Celebration is an immersive ride into decadence and a challenge to social hypocrisy past and present. Running until 9 August this...
Aug 3, 2025
Three women, three timelines, and a mystery – Echoes Across Time is a specially commissioned theatrical storytelling production which will be a centrepiece of the Edinburgh Deaf Festival. Written and directed by Nadia Nadarajah it explores the disappearance of two...
Aug 3, 2025
A group of teenage American performers have thanked the people of Edinburgh for their support in helping get them to the Fringe to stage a musical to honour the memory of their drama teacher. When Paul Andrew Perez died unexpectedly, part way through writing a...
Jul 25, 2025
Fringe veteran Paul Andrew Perez was in the midst of writing a new teenage pop rock musical for the Edinburgh Fringe when he died in April. The director and theatre department head, based in Florida, was working with 15 to 17-year-old students from St John’s Country...
Jul 24, 2025
Just ahead of her 10th anniversary as owner of feminist bookshop ReadingLasses, Dr Jacqui Robertson, has achieved her ambition of ensuring that every one of the 10,000 books on her shelves is written by a woman. The shop, which she has run since 25 July 2015, is among...
Jul 17, 2025
No political statement, no underlying metaphor, no great revelations about the nature of humanity. And that’s a solemn promise. Matt Hale’s Funbelievable! 90s Rewind comedy hypnosis show is all about regular people doing bonkers things on stage (a lot of them set to...
Jul 16, 2025
Wigtown Festival Company is welcoming the return of Isla Rosser-Owen as its new CEO – overseeing its much-loved annual book festival and the rest of its year-round programme. Isla spent three years as Wigtown Book Festival’s cultural producer from 2018. In 2022 she...
